Actually the bug was in the sun JVM's up until I think 1.2, the reason I'm wanting to know is I've written a game that I didn't see a good reason not to make an applet... or even a good reason it shouldn't run on the MS JVM (or well, any 1.1 jvm, but other than the MS JVM I don't think it's likely someone will have that old of a JVM in use). Obviously I would recommend anyone using the applet to upgrade to 1.4 but I don't want to make that a requirement.

Is there a non-pure java solution, maybe something like having the sounds embedded into the page somehow using javascript to play the files?

I haven't researched it but I seem to recall there was something about using javascript to manipulate applets (or what I'm hoping the other way around), if that's the case I could probably solve the problem without any obvious problems.

Did some searching and there is an object called JSObject from netscape that allows Javascript to talk to and be talked to by Java, microsoft also has an object JSObject that does the same, so I'm going to give a shot at using javascript functions to play sounds from my applet.

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